Reader, poetry-enjoyer, and music-lover with a fondness for art, history, and the ephemeral. I enjoy contemplative, flowery writing and slow conversation. Some of the writers I return to often are Claire Keegan, Milan Kundera, Nietzsche, Arundhati Roy, and E.M. Forster. I also love poetry (both reading and writing), art, history, and language exploration. As an avid record collector, music is always playing in the background—anything from glam rock to opera, Joan Baez to Sade, Stevie Nicks, or Tchaikovsky. Shared humanity drives me; what a marvel it is, the interconnectedness between people.